being a record, week-on-week, of the astounding digressive fragment detail or item which sets each issue of the LRB apart from any other publication, similar or elsewise

dr fossile! they don't write em like that any more (plays)

missed a bunch of possibilities recently but this made me grin this morning:

"Then, in 1733, [Curll] advertised his intention of publishing a Life of Pope, for which ‘nothing shall be wanting but his (universally desired) Death,’ and asked people to supply him with ‘Memoirs &c’ to fuel it" (from Colin Burrow on Pope and hius feud with the publisher Edmund Curll, 21 Apr 22)

not actually very digressive but still a good detail